Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] KS Topic request: Handling the Stablekernel, let's dump the cc: stable tag

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jul 16 2013 - 02:24:21 EST


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 03:30:01AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Anything that's being reviewed on the stable list is public. I know
> this is an old argument, but if you point out a fix you *know* has a
> security impact then you'll help general distribution maintainers and
> users a lot more than you help the black-hats who are quite capable of
> recognising such a fix (if they haven't already spotted and exploited
> the bug).

I'm sorry, but you know I will not do that, so asking about it isn't
going to change this behavior.

greg k-h
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